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Signing: Ken Pontac on “Wacky Raceland” at Isotope (June 8)

KenPontacA last minute signing announcement from Isotope: The Comic Book Lounge at 326 Fell Street in San Francisco. Ken Pontac will be in attendance from 4 p.m. until 6 p.m. today (June 8) signing copies of Wacky Raceland. In addition to this new spin on Hanna-Barbera’s Wacky Races, Pontac is known for his work on Happy Tree Friends, Bump in the Night, and ¡Mucha Lucha! (and much more).

From DC:

The world has ended, but the race has just begun! Penelope Pitstop, Peter Perfect and the rest of the Wacky Racers vie for the finish line in a contest where the winner takes all and second place is death. Today’s trial: the shattered maze of freeways known as the Überpass, where they’re beset by giant sand beasts, mutated insects, and worst of all, Dick Dastardly’s murderously poor sportsmanship. The last thing they need after surviving the race is a brutal bar fight in a local dive, but that’s just what they get!

 

Jesse Russell

Before Oakland, there was Madison, Wisconsin. In Madison, the hours that weren’t filled up by my day job were typically devoured by event planning and running the city’s popular arts and politics news site, Dane101. Some of the events I organized include an annual two-night cabaret/carnival/masquerade party called the Fire Ball Masquerade, Madison's biggest non-city sponsored Halloween party, the geek culture focused MadPubQuiz of Awesomeness, and the first Whedonesque Burlesque in the country. Having successfully reshaped the reality of Madison, Wisconsin I packed up and moved to the Bay Area in February of 2013. In addition to comics, I enjoy imbibing cocktails and beer, exploring foreign cities, consuming food of various temperatures, hearing music performed live, losing at board and card games, and getting caught in the rain.